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Problem: A system must have a reliability of 99%. How many components are required in parallel when each component has a reliability of 65%?

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Compute a System Reliability at 65%. How many components are required in parallel?

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When a system is in parallel, this means that the system is work as long as at least one component is working. It is easier to think that the system fails when all parts fails.

Since the components are independent, for a system with n components, we have

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